Robinson Crusoe (r-) and Rosa Luxemburg (亻) are pulling a new trick just inside the entrance of the Forbidden City (-en2). Rosa Luxemburg is balancing on Robinson Crusoe, while balancing a banana (丿) on a dinosaur bone (丨).

Here's another version of 人. As you can see further down the page, it exclusively appears at the left-hand side of other characters, and as such sometimes gives a hint at the meaning of the respective character. Almost all Chinese characters are built like that: Some components (usually at the left-hand side) are hinting at the meaning, and one other component (often at the right-hand side) are hinting at the pronunciation. Characters that are built this way are called phono-semantic compounds.

Composition: 亻 = 丿 + 丨

I will represent this radical by Rosa Luxemburg.
- Mnemonic by Matthias, almost 5 years
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Image by Matthias,over 4 years
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Robinson Crusoe and Rosa Luxemburg are pulling a new trick just inside the entrance of the Forbidden City. Rosa Luxemburg is balancing on Robinson Crusoe, while balancing a banana on a dinosaur bone.
- Mnemonic by Matthias, over 4 years
ago
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